CATALOGUE SUPER LABO

Special Edition:
Include signed C-print,
mounted in a mat with hard cover folio,set together
with a book in a slipcase.
Numbered certificate is attached to the folio.
Limited edition of 30 +6APs
Choice between 2 original prints.
Each print is limited edition of 15 + 3APs,
Print size: 12.5 x 8.75 cm

Published in 2017
ISBN 978-4-908512-09-4

Svalbard

Naoki Ishikawa (Tokyo, Japan)

"Northeast of Greenland, far north of the Scandinavian Peninsula, there is
a group of islands called Svalbard. A part of Norway located in the
northernmost part of the Arctic, this area is the northernmost point where
human beings live today. Needless to say, summer nights are filled with the
light of the midnight sun, and very dark polar nights are experienced during
winter. The environment is so severe that the daily lowest temperature in
winter is as low as -30℃.
I have visited Svalbard two times so far. The first time was in April 2007
when the winter was not yet over, and the second time was from June until
July of 2017,in mid-summer. Over a decade of time had passed between
my two trips.
Summer in the Arctic confuses my sense of time. Time over thousands
of years, my life span shorter than a hundred years, and the cycle of 24 hours
in a day.
A polar bear is biting on a seal somewhere I do not know. And at the same
time, someone is calling my cell phone, someone probably busy working day
and night. Being on the Arctic island, I am reminded of the world we live in
as such. "